[sdiy] EE Degree

[Rob B]

Get a business degree first.. From what I see, its easier for them to get
jobs, and their salaries have no top.

The EE salaries have topped off.. It used to be that there was NO limit to
what an EE could make at a corporation, nor any limit to what job they could
hold..

Now, I would say its harder to get a job being a new EE, there is a
positional ceiling now that keeps you out of exec management, and ppl with
BS degrees are the ppl who tell you what to do..

Get a biz degree, become an exec, then finish your EE in luxury, without
having massive deadlines, tons of stress, or any of the other crap.

After I got my ASET, I have been trying to finish my EE degree for about 7
years now, part time (yeah, someday it will happen) and there is some
unwritten law that anyone who is currently working will NEVER be able to get
their EE classes in the evening to be able to finish. Its like they want you
to be dirt poor and have to quit your job to finish you EE..Wonderful..With
tuition going up like a damned rocket at IUPUI, you *must* work, because the
loans won't cover all your expenses..

Another thing too is that I have taken a class, dropped it before the drop
date, and restarted it the next semester, and, although the credit load is
the same, the new and improved class has double the damned workload! In the
last few years, they have just been adding and adding to the workload of the
EE classes for the same credit amount, and mainly they all have bought into
the hype that computers are the ONLY way you are going to learn EE.. Every
class now has, including the already severe workload, excercises that MUST
be done in C, Maple, Mathematica, Autocad, etc etc which basically chains
you to a terminal, and I absolutely hate that.

Another new thing which I think is retarded is mandatory attendance.
Basically this is mainly to stroke the profs egos so that they don't have
classes with 1 or 2 ppl in them. So, if you are like me, you listen to the
person for 1.5 hours and, since they speak no english, you still have to
read the whole damn book again, since the notes from the class are
incoherent. Anyway, for any reason, you miss the class the first time, and
you end up getting dropped, if the prof so desires.. I have had this happen
too, and you have to now take time off of work, go meander through the
campus getting all the correct signatures and explain why you weren't there
just so you can get back into class..

Ill bet you can directly couple in the fact of having profs who don't speak
english or are just have terrible attitudes with the decline in US born
engineers.. But, no one would want to hear that truth.

Other countries may be different, but this is how it is here..

Have fun. :(

I would say if you are in the US, move to another country, go to school for
less, get your EE, and come back to the states.. Yeah, you will have to
learn another language, but it won't take you 7 years to finish, nor 100k
dollars.. I regret not having stayed in Germany to get my citizenship and
going to school there.. :(

Rant mode off...

Rob



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Martens" <amartens at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>; "Moho Disco" <moho at mohodisco.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] EE Degree


> Good luck heading back - getting an EE degree can be a bit of a pain.  I
> just finished mine a few weeks ago.  Now all I have to do is get a job...
> don't suppose anyone has an opening in Vancouver, BC, Canada for an
aspiring
> synth (hard/soft/whatever) designer? :-)
>
> > Well, thanks in part to all of you on this list, I have
> > decided to apply to go back to school this fall semester
> > and get a second bachelor's degree in Electrical
> > Engineering! (my first degree was Art Ed)
> >
> > I noticed that there is a senior project - maybe this
> > extra SID chip of mine will get some use!
>
> I actually worked on a project with the SID last year.  That reminds me, I
> should get around to finishing it, at least when I'm done moving this
month.
> If you want more details on it I can forward my schematics and code to you
> (though it's still incomplete).
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Martens
>